David LaChapelle Quotes

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

It's a visual world and people respond to visuals.

Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.

Pictures have a lot more power than text. Text is just a bunch of little symbols. You have to actually read it and imagine it, and even that can be censored. With pictures, it's a lot more immediate.

What is it about animation, graphics, illustrations, that create meaning? And this is an important question to ask and answer because the more we understand how the brain creates meaning, the better we can communicate, and, I also think, the better we can think and collaborate together.

That night image had replaced the written word as the natural language of politics.

Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image.

The image, like the voice, came in stages. I never sat down with anyone and said, 'Let's design an image.'

If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.

I think any opportunity you can to employ some visual technique, go for it.

I'm huge on visuals. I love visuals.

Design is thinking made visual.

I trust the pictures to tell what I want to say.

Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.

It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.

Image is an international language.

We live in a visual world now.

I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.

Not only is writing more important than ever, but visual literacy is vital. We don't teach enough design, art, visual things. We have to recognize what we're seeing. It matters if you send someone a cluttered design. It matters more than ever.

The image is an image.

The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music. Most people's eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they'll understand the music.

I look at graphic design as communication, meaning that the work has to have a vibe to connect to the viewer or perceiver. I make a black and white drawing and then add color digitally, bringing in a contemporary pattern to the composition to create a vibrance.

Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.

I feel like I can communicate much better using images than words.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.